school rules; school regulations
law; act; method; mood; dharma; law
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
article (in document); provision; stripe; streak; although; though
(college) president; secretary-general
union; alliance; combination; RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
absence; disregard; indifference
unclear; obscure; unknown; unidentified; ignorance; lack of wisdom
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
function; facility; faculty; feature
pupil; student; schoolchild
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
temporary; provisional; interim; special; extraordinary; extra
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
to be able (to); to be possible (to)
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
director; executive; officer; official; person in charge
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
other (esp. people and abstract matters)
approximation; having a close resemblance
rank; place (e.g. first place); decimal place; counter for ghosts
role; assignment; position (of responsibility); post; part (in a play, film, etc.); role
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
involving only the parties concerned; tete-a-tete
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
qualified or eligible person
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home
duty; obligation; responsibility
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
Saint; St.; S.; sacred; holy; pure